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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
OSP
A couple weekends ago we went to check out the opening of the Olympic Sculpture Park downtown.
Uncle Ted and the barge.
Base and pavilion.
Metal tree.
Uncle Ted and the barge.
Base and pavilion.
Metal tree.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Winterim
I have to go skiing every Friday as part of work. It's rough, but somebody has to teach these kids how to ski. Just a few shots from the first couple of days.
Circling up for some instruction.
Team Norway out on the trail.
Will and Sam lead the opening ceremonies with a race to the torches and then a rendition of the Norwegian national anthem. Eighth-graders are soooo cool.
Most of the group assembled in front of the lodge.
Free time.
Circling up for some instruction.
Team Norway out on the trail.
Will and Sam lead the opening ceremonies with a race to the torches and then a rendition of the Norwegian national anthem. Eighth-graders are soooo cool.
Most of the group assembled in front of the lodge.
Free time.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Megan, Malinda, and Me in Montana
Calf A Cafe. Good name.
Hiking.
Elfish and intellectual?
Cooking a frozen pizza in the campfire. Classy.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Chugchilan and Quilotoa
I spent two days and two nights on the Chugchilan loop just south of Quito. Chugchilan is a very small Andean town with three competing hostels and plenty of young gringos searching for the experience that comes so very highly recommended in every Ecuadorian guidebook. The guidebooks are right though. I would definitely say the hike near Chugchilan at Laguna Quilotoa is one of the most beautiful I've ever done. These photos almost do it justice. The light was better when I was there...
Laguna Quilotoa. It's in the crater of an old volcano. This is the start of the hike. You can also kayak around for pretty cheap, which I did, and it was awesome.
View near Chugchilan. Lots of gulleys and valleys in this area. We had to cross a landslide that was still sliding.
Laguna Quilotoa. It's in the crater of an old volcano. This is the start of the hike. You can also kayak around for pretty cheap, which I did, and it was awesome.
View near Chugchilan. Lots of gulleys and valleys in this area. We had to cross a landslide that was still sliding.
Cuenca
Cuenca is a very nicely-kept city also in the south of Ecuador. It was my next stop after Loja, and I spent about three days there, admiring all the buildings, watching a local soccer game, and visiting museums, including one exhibit on the shrunken heads of the Shuar people in the Amazon. Very cool. Cuenca is also the cultural center of Ecuador, the home of panama hats and free hippie concerts in the plaza where Colombianas dance around and throw flower petals at the crowd in overly emotive gestures.
Cuenca corner, not too far from the modern art museum.
The top of Cuenca's cathedral, which was HUGE and gorgeous.
Cuenca corner, not too far from the modern art museum.
The top of Cuenca's cathedral, which was HUGE and gorgeous.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Aloha from Loja
Loja, Ecuador is a great, smallish city in the south.
This is a statue of Loja's founder in the plaza off the main plaza. Lojanos love their plazas, their colonial architecture, and statues of various heroes. Simon Bolivar must have a hundred statues, busts, and murals all over town.
After my bus in Peru was hijacked and I was threatened and robbed at gunpoint, which I am counting as a near-death experience, the only significant life change I have made is that I am eating more dessert more frequently and sooner. I am visiting a lot of pastelerias like this one in Loja. Ecuador makes a pretty good doughnut.
View of Loja. But it is actually rainier than this right now.
This is a statue of Loja's founder in the plaza off the main plaza. Lojanos love their plazas, their colonial architecture, and statues of various heroes. Simon Bolivar must have a hundred statues, busts, and murals all over town.
After my bus in Peru was hijacked and I was threatened and robbed at gunpoint, which I am counting as a near-death experience, the only significant life change I have made is that I am eating more dessert more frequently and sooner. I am visiting a lot of pastelerias like this one in Loja. Ecuador makes a pretty good doughnut.
View of Loja. But it is actually rainier than this right now.
Aloha from Loja
Loja, Ecuador is a great, smallish city in the south.
This is a statue of Loja's founder in the plaza off the main plaza. Lojanos love their plazas, their colonial architecture, and statues of various heroes. Simon Bolivar must have a hundred statues, busts, and murals all over town.
After my bus in Peru was hijacked and I was threatened and robbed at gunpoint, which I am counting as a near-death experience, the only significant life change I have made is that I am eating more dessert more frequently and sooner. I am visiting a lot of pastelerias like this one in Loja. Ecuador makes a pretty good doughnut.
View of Loja. But it is actually rainier than this right now.
This is a statue of Loja's founder in the plaza off the main plaza. Lojanos love their plazas, their colonial architecture, and statues of various heroes. Simon Bolivar must have a hundred statues, busts, and murals all over town.
After my bus in Peru was hijacked and I was threatened and robbed at gunpoint, which I am counting as a near-death experience, the only significant life change I have made is that I am eating more dessert more frequently and sooner. I am visiting a lot of pastelerias like this one in Loja. Ecuador makes a pretty good doughnut.
View of Loja. But it is actually rainier than this right now.
Monday, May 22, 2006
More Kuelap
I did a big, long 5-day trek around Chachapoya, this one Zabajaba jungle-style (that is to say, it was hot, confusing, machetes were needed, and there were large birds, butterflies...no baboons with blue butts though), and ended up at this great mountaintop site, which is supposed to be the crown jewel of Amazonas´s archaeology.
Traditional Chachapoya circular houses. Pointy tops.
Overgrown walls. Gruesomely, people are buried inside.
Kuelap entrance.
(These photos aren´t mine, by the way. The digital camera was lost/stolen, so I'm working with a mechanical one now. These are stolen from the internet.)
Traditional Chachapoya circular houses. Pointy tops.
Overgrown walls. Gruesomely, people are buried inside.
Kuelap entrance.
(These photos aren´t mine, by the way. The digital camera was lost/stolen, so I'm working with a mechanical one now. These are stolen from the internet.)
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